Debian testing in a Hyper-V VM does not sync time on resume

2014-02-01 Thread Sladjan Ristic
I tried to save the VM state or pause and resumed it again. In both occasions Debian testing would not sync its time with the Hyper-V host most of the time (rarely it actually did). I tried Debian Wheezy and it worked fine always. I checked and the the hv drivers were loaded on the VM. (I also t

How can I debug a kernel module?

2014-01-29 Thread Sladjan Ristic
Hi, I have installed Debian under client Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 Pro and the time is not synced after a resume, the clock just goes one like nothing happened. So if the guest VM was in a saved state for one hour, its clock would be late one hour after resuming the VM. The source of 'hv_utils'

Xen-kernel fails to boot (no root device)

2014-01-21 Thread Sladjan Ristic
Hi, I tried booting into the Xen-kernel in a virtual machine under Hyper-V (Windows 8.1 64bit). While the normal kernel boots fine, the Xen-kernel cannot find the root device. Debian6, which doesn't seem to have Hyper-V modules by default, works fine. Under Debian7 (and testing) I get an err